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Monday, 31 March 2014

Not a lot of Socio/Political comment of
late. If words are our weapon then some times my ammunition either
runs out or keeps on firing at the same targets. Unfortunately
that's how it is. So whats been going on...Probably a lot more than
they are telling us, they only tell us what they want us to know, and
when they want us to know it.

Russian leader Puttin has stopped
posturing like King Kong with a hard on, and is now negotiating, with
the rest of the world over the Crimea. Russian oligarchs have had
their assets frozen, which should stop 'em buying any more English
football teams for the moment.

In a case of life imitating art, or at
best a long running drawn out TV drama; Lost. A plane went missing
over three weeks ago, in a high tech world it disappeared when
persons unknown (terrorists or a suicidal pilot) turned off the radar
signal. Relatives grief and demand the truth when conspiracy
theories have been the only answers, which have caused more questions. The
truth is out there....two miles down at the bottom of the Indian
Ocean, but we will probably never know why!

UKIP gain popularity after the EU
debate on the Radio last week. If there was no UKIP where would the
bigots and racists turn? Here's a thought UKIP's stance on
immigration could potentially stop far right extremists from Europe
coming to Britain to stir things up? Fighting fascism with fascism.
Unfortunately UKIP are a necessary political evil in a democracy,
they are both a pressure cooker and blender for Right Wing
Anti-Immigration views. Both the Labour and Conservative parties
have to address public opinion to stop it boiling over, they will use
diluted policies based on UKIP's stance, in order to win next years
election. The frightening thing is that a growing percentage of the
British public belief all the bullshit propaganda that UKIP are
peddling, even more than the bullshit broadcast by the Labour,
Conservative and Liberal parties.

I heard another early shot in their
battle for the hearts and minds of the electorate on the radio this
morning, there are plans a foot to charge people for using the NHS.
Free at the point of contact, but should someone be admitted to
Hospital then there are proposals to charge people for their stay,
Like it's a fucking hotel. There's also talk of raising prescription
charges, how about the NHS buys the drugs from the pharmaceutical
companies at a cheaper price, negotiate the deals, isn't that what a
free market is all about? But no we'll make the people pay for the
corporate share holders profits. How about making those that can
afford to pay for their health care....pay! For example all those
politicians that insist on using the NHS to show the belief they have
in it and that they are the same as the people they
represent....charge them, because it's those most in need that will
suffer (the elderly and the poor) who no doubt will also be judged on
the lifestyle choices they have made, if they had a choice!

The state can't afford the expense of
the NHS, because successive governments both Left and Right have
spent billions on wars and national security, all done in our name.
God and Allah forbid there is another terrorist attack in the UK, but
I fear that something will happen again, my faith in organised
religion is the same as it is with politicians. They aint gonna save
us, they're gonna kill us. So then....if there was another 7/7
bombing, would the injured be charged for their stay in one of the
new Hospital Hotels?

As I type this I can hear the 10.00
clock news reporting that climate change is going to be a big problem
in the future; food shortages and more extreme weather. The far
right are on the rise in France, and licensing laws will change
during the World Cup so England fans can drink later while they watch
England play. “Here we go, Here we go, Here we go again!”

Sunday, 30 March 2014

Thursday, 27 March 2014

The DeRellas are all fired up about the
release of their new album SLAM! BAM!, it's due out in May, and
promises to be another rifftastic piece of Punk'n'Roll just like
their debut Hollywood Monsters. Here's what the band have to say
about the proceedings....

“It's in the can! Slam!
Bam!, the rip-roaring second album from The DeRellas (that's us), has
been recorded and mixed, the artwork is done, the running order is
finalised. We're ready to unshackle the beast and release it to the
world like King Kong with a king-sized hangover. Building on the
reprobate rock'n'roll sound of our acclaimed debut Hollywood
Monsters, Slam! Bam! Could soon be powering through your speakers
like an AK47.”

Slam! Bam! is available to pre-order
through Pledge Music, on a variety of formats with added extras like
T-Shirts, signed artwork etc. So 1, 2, 3, 4....What are yer waiting
for.... click here and sign up for some solid gold DeRellas action, then why not catch 'em live in a town near you when they take to the road with their new drummer to promote the album.

Sunday, 23 March 2014

Here's the video to GLM's Summer Nights
(Are Never Like Movies) featuring Jack Nicholson's back and Nicole
Kidman alongside Esso, Pete and Nigel. Great video by eddieredblood for a great song by GLM. Summer Nights is also going to be
featured on Can't Stop The Heat, a 5 track EP that GLM are releasing
around April/May. The Future Is Calling also makes a return
appearance, along with three new ones; Not The Real Thing ,Smiling
Inside and There Goes Deborah. Pete Stride (Guitar/Vocals) reckons
the new songs are of a “Pretty hard and fast style with a touch of
pop at the same time.” He also went on to say that they went for
an EP rather than an album, because an album would have taken to long
to do, and the band like getting new stuff out as soon as possible to
keep people interested. There will also be a video out at the same
time as the EP,' GLM's album Chemical Landslide is currently
available from their web site at the knock down recession busting
price of £4.99. A bargain if you like your Rock'Roll hard, heavy
and tuneful. The best songs The Lurkers didn't write!

Saturday, 22 March 2014

If any band of the last few years
deserves to have their 15 Minutes, that band is Electric River. It's
about time their stadium sized anthems were taken from the
clubs'n'pubs in which they've been tirelessly playing for the last
four years and into larger venues. If there's any justice in an
unjust world then Electric Rivers new album should see them kick the
doors down and burst onto these stages with their street smart songs
of hardship, hope, pain and positivity. Any one looking for a
British Gaslight Anthem or to hear what a scuffle between The Clash
and Big Country sounds like should look no further than Electric
River.

Their new 2 track single In Your Name/32 is
out on 31st March. Its a beefy, raw, raucous but polished
blast of Rock'n'Roll. The album The Faith And Patience is due out
around May on Cadiz Music, and if it's anything like this single and
their previous releases it will be a corker! More info
on Electric River can be found on their Facebook page.

Friday, 14 March 2014

Thursday, 13 March 2014

If this was the NME, and I was some
trend setting music journo then I'd be proclaiming that East London's
Rock'n'Roll animals Deadcuts were the best new band of 2014, and the
future of Rock'n'Roll, but it isn't and I aint so....I wont, but what I will say
is that they are the best band I have heard for many a year, and as
for them being the future of Rock'n'Roll.... Well, does Rock'n'Roll
have a future in a world of the bland, sanitised and desensitised? Well yes it does as long as there are bands like Deadcuts out there;
ones that defy categorisation, playing music that challenges and
confronts the senses and takes you to different places. A band that treads its own path through the
debris and broken glass of the past.

Deadcuts play short sharp songs of epic
proportions, full of more hooks than a butchers shop. Gruff gravely
vocals, a twin guitar attack that swoops and soars above a solid
rhythm section before diving and cutting into yer flesh like a rusty
razor. Brutal and beautiful, sexy and sleazy stuff, music to fuck and
get fucked up to. It's what guitars were built for!

Their debut album Dark Is The Night
promises to be something special if the tracks I've heard from it are
anything to go by. There's some Deadcuts gear to watch on
youtube and to listen to on Soundcloud or take a trip to their facebook page.

If this was the NME and I was a trend setting journo I'd also have said that Deadcuts sound like a Punked Up Psychedelic Furs for the 21st Century.

Tuesday, 11 March 2014

Cant say I was a big Bob Crow
supporter; just another leader with power, yeah he did use it to
support his Union members, but in turn he also used it to support
himself in a manner not so working class. All power corrupts! A
'suspected heart attack' has removed a thorn from the side of those
presently holding the(ir) power. A 'crazy conspiracy theorist' might say that his untimely death came at precisely the right time; In the
build up to next years general election the established order isn't
gonna want a charismatic lefty with power pissing on their parade, but who am I to say.

Sunday, 2 March 2014

A hundred years after the First World War, is this the start of a Third one? Who knows, watch this space.... Or a live and direct High Definition 24hr News feed! Just remember it has been said that truth is the first casualty of war!

KEEPING THE BLOG FIRES BURNING!

SEALED WITH A KISS!

BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE

SOLIDARITY!

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BANG, BANG ! The writings on the wall....

....but the Great Wall of China aint gonna be long enough to line all the Mutha Fuckers up against!

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I DON'T GIVE A SHIT WHAT YOU HAD FOR YOUR BREAKFAST OR DINNER!

The Instagram Stazi informants share every aspect of their lives with fellow twittering facebook 'friends' millions starve while millions show each other what they had to eat.

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This Note Pad Says....

FIGHT THE POWER

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“Many palaces have tumbled, many walls have been knocked down, and many more will fall, many more will lose the ground. They’ll pretend to understand and they’ll make a few amends but we’ve seen it all before and we’re not taking it again....RISE UP!"

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....on Easy Action Records, Johnny Thunders sublime 1983 acoustic album Hurt Me. Includes a free bonus disc of the albums showcase gig in London (Click on image for more details.)

CHECK THIS SHIT OUT! Before The Blog there was The Band THE DRUG PROWLING WOLVES

“Trust, faith, good, bad...non of it matters. All you ever do is what you have to do. Follow your desires, fulfil your needs, escape from pain. That's all there is to it.” - Kevin Brooks.

"Things you use; things you possess, and are possessed by; things you build with - bricks, words. You build houses with them, and towns, and causeways. But the buildings fall, the causeways cannot go all the way. There is an abyss, a gap, a last step to be taken." - Ursula Le Guin.

FUK U PUTIN!

POWER TO THE PUSSY!

FUCK THEIR OLYMPIC DIAMOND JUBILEE FLAG FEST!

If it is what it is, then why is it what it is?
The truth is….it’s all lies!

Searching for beauty amongst all the ugliness, where all you find is a barbed wire caress.

Forget about what you haven't done, and think about what you have done! Forget about what could have been, and think about what could be!Forget about what you can't do and think about what you can do!
Don't forget....WE HAVE THE POWER....Think about it!!!!

CONSUMERS OF THE WORLD UNITE....THEY HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE BUT THEIR CHANGE!

WHILE SOME ARE LIVING THE DREAM, OTHERS ARE DYING IN THE NIGHTMARE!

Available @ ITunes.

“At the edge of a revolution / That’s exactly where we stand / And though we could seize the moment / We aspire to wear the brand / And we take our place in a profane state / With the common herd the beautiful and damned / I’ve had enough of this grey sky thinking / I’m coming in to land.” - TV SMITH

RAISED IN A PRISON

Click the above image to find out more about this gross miscarriage of Great British Justice. IT'S CRIMINAL! Gary was now been released from prison (March 2012) Justice will only be served when he has cleared his name!

DON'T JUST THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX / SMASH THE FUCKIN' BOX!
"Look at the outside. There's a new direction we've got to find." - Chelsea

If you hear anyone talking about getting a 3-D T.V tell ‘em to Fuck Off! and get a life instead. If flat screens, HD and plasma weren’t enough. As for those giant ipad things, for fucks sake…..WE DON’T NEED THIS SHIT!

Stay Free / Stay Strong / Keep On Keeping On!

All things connected / All things rejected / Looked to the left / Looked to the right / In the middle of the road / Waiting for the riot //

Whoever is in power; they need opposing. Only when there is no power for them to be in can the opposition cease!

Without hope and faith we are nothing!

"You drag yourself to work. Drug yourself to sleep. You're dead from the neck up, by the middle of the week." - Joe Scratch (Mercenary Clash)

PO-ATE-TREE KORNER.

Just like ducks being fed / All we get is stale bread.Just like cattle at the water / Fattened up and sent for slaughter.Just like the beasts at Noahs Zoo / We're kept in line two by two.Just like the clouds on a windy day / It's easy to get blown away.But just like a bird in a clear blue sky / I spread my wings and start to fly.

HIGH STREETI took a walk and what did I seeMiles and miles of misery.Down in the town they offer heavenFor all your pounds.Get back home open up the bagThen get the feeling you’ve been had.Just more shit you didn’t needConsumption feeds their fix for greed.

A Thought.........

For fucks sake....

10 Years on and we've been more than cheated, but I don't see Rock'n'Roll taking on the Government now!

If this story was true.....

...then I'd weigh a fucking ton!

In the beginning is the scream. We scream.

"When we write or when we read, it is easy to forget that the beginning is not the word, but the scream. Faced with the mutilation of human lives by capitalism, a scream of sadness, a scream of horror, a scream of anger, a scream of refusal: NO." - John Holloway

The Wall

"There was a wall. It did not look important. It was built of uncut rocks roughly mortared; an adult could look right over it, and even a child could climb it. Where it crossed the roadway, instead of having a gate it degenerated into mere geometry, a line, an idea of boundary. But the idea was real.........Like all walls it was ambiguous, two-faced. What was inside it and what was outside it depended upon which side of it you were on." -Ursula Le Guin (In The Dispossessed)

‘Excuse me,’ they cry, ‘you can’t fight it; twice two is four! Nature doesn’t ask you about it; she’s not concerned with your wishes or with whether you like her laws or not. You must take her as she is, and consequently all her results as well. I mean to say, a wall is a wall, etc. But good God! What have the laws of nature and arithmetic to do with me, when for some reason I don’t like those laws or twice two? Naturally I shan’t break through the wall with my head, if I’m really not strong enough, but I wont be reconciled to it simply because it’s a stone wall and I haven’t enough strength to break it down. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (In Notes From Underground)

BRUTHA BLOGGERS WITH THEIR FINGERS ON THE BUTTON.

OLD SKOOL CUT 'N' PASTE

The Archmullah Of Canterbury

THE TWO HEADED BEAST

We're living in its legacy!

"I will shatter the power of the mighty, of the law and of property."

How did Gordon Brown run the country?

Just Like that!

THE DEVILS RIGHT HAND

Check out the state of Thatchers hand. This was the hand that signed the Poll Tax Bill and signed away workers rights and soldiers lives amongst other things. Now it is turning into a cloven hoof. (check out the picture with her next to Brown over on the main part of the blog, cos for some reason this picture has distorted and made her look even more like a monster than she was, if that's possible.)

'I can't believe this pain and misery are all in aid of a new society.' - Null&Void

ER!

That wasn't supposed to look like that. Ah! Fuck it never mind, call it art.

BROTHERS IN ARMS

Revolution is alive'n'kicking in 2007 Britain, courtesy of 'crackpot Cornish extremists' AKA The Cornish National Liberation Army who are taking their fight to the owners of second homes who come from out of the county. Dunno 'bout that gun though, only damage it looks like it could do is to themselves.

'I myself believe, perhaps on insufficient grounds, that the common man will win his fight sooner or later, but I want it to be sooner and not later - some time within the next hundred years, say and not some time within the nest ten thousand years.' - George Orwell (Homage to Catalonia,1938)

The powers that have for centuries been engaged in enslaving the masses have made a thorough study of their psychology. They know that the people at large are like children whose despair, sorrow and tears can be turned into joy with a little toy. And the more gorgeously the toy is dressed, the louder the colors, the more it will appeal to the million-headed child. - Emma Goldman (Anarchism and Other Essays)

'It was not desirable that the proles should have strong political feelings. All that was required of them was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working-hours or shorter rations. And even when they became discontented, as they sometimes did, their discontent led nowhere, because without general ideas, they could only focus it on petty specific grievances.' - George Orwell (1984)

'Like Anthony, she wished at times that she had not been presented with this sudden freedom of choice. It had felt safer, when they had been blinkered by sickening anxiety, walking the narrow path, unable to risk a glance to right or left. Now, they stood in a flat and featureless plain, older, wiser but somehow diminished.' - Margaret Drabble (Ice Age)

'The formula works. He stumbled on the first and last truth about the leisure society, and perhaps all societies. Crime and creativity go together, and always have done. The greater the sense of crime, the greater civic awareness and richer the civilisation. Nothing else binds a community together. It's a strange paradox.' - J.G Ballard (in Cocaine Nights)

The proletarian dictatorship...has today grown into a frightful despotism and a new imperialism, which lags behind the tyranny of Fascist states in nothing. - Rudolf Rocker(1973)

'Brothers and SistersI wanna see a sea of hands out there.Let me see a sea of hands.I want everybody to kick up some noise.I wanna hear some revolution out there, brothersI wanna hear a little revolution.Brothers and sisters, the time has comeFor each and every one of you to decideWhether you are gonna be the problem,Or whether you are gonna be the solution.You must choose, brothers, you must choose.It takes 5 seconds, 5 seconds of decision.Five seconds to realize that it's time to move.It's time to get down with it.Brothers, it's time to testify and I want to know,Are you ready to testify?Are you ready?I GIVE YOU A TESTIMONIAL, THE MC5 !!!!'

THOSE WHO CAME B4

What would Hardie and Pankhurst make of New Labour and The Spice Girls? Is this what they fought for?

WHY IS BRITAIN SUCH A HATED NATION?

THIS MAN IS A THIEF!

For the last 10 years he has been stealing our money with his red briefcase. Only in a STALINIST TOTALITARIAN DEMOCRACY could a man like this become Prime Minister.

Who the fuck are........

Watch this space and find out. You'll be sorry.

If yer into The Mob and Zounds this is a must have. Available from: diamondDCactus.com

'Welcome to the desert of the real'

29/7/29 - 6/3/07

MPFree!

Available from: http://www.carbonsiliconinc.com/music/mp3.aspx

ANOK

'Anarchism in all its guises is an assertion of human dignity and responsibility. It is not a programme for political change but an act of social self-determination.' - Colin Ward

'A line of poetry is a chance to get rid of all the filth that clings to this accursed language, as if put there by stockbrokers' hands, hands worn smooth by coin' - Hugo Ball (1916)

BUllSHit

'Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison' - Henry David Thoreau

THATCHAAAARGH !

'No amount of education will make women first-rate politicians. Can you see a women becoming a prime minister? I cannot imagine a greater calamity for these islands than to be put under the guidance of a woman in 10 Downing Street.' - Margot Asquith

4 REAL !

'People should realise what the level of violence is like in most peoples lives. It's sad that working class resentment is always turned on itself. Nobody seems to realise that'

'So damn easy to cave in, man kills everything'

THERE ARE NO ANSWERS, JUST MORE QUESTIONS.

THERE'S A METHOD IN MY MADNESS

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A celebration of eveyday life, the excitement of the mundane. No reality TV cameras here, this is 4 real. What you see is what you get. THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT.